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Wblane

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:41 am
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If anyone still comes here, does anyone know what the maximum hard drive size
is on a FIC VA503+?
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 1:22 am
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With the latest bios, 137 GB for WinXP and 128 GB for Win98. You might be
able to find a bios upgrade that would give you 48 bit LBA support, that
would make it 2.2 TB for WinXP (and Win98 with this patch
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://members.aol.com/rloew1/Programs/Patch137.htm" target="_blank">http://members.aol.com/rloew1/Programs/Patch137.htm</a>).

"Wblane" <wblane.TakeThisOut@aol.combotizer> wrote in message
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 > If anyone still comes here, does anyone know what the maximum hard drive
size
 > is on a FIC VA503+?
 > -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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Den

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:52 am
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"Wblane"
....
 > If anyone still comes here, does anyone know what the maximum hard drive size
 > is on a FIC VA503+?

Some of us also visit via our PA-2013 as well as
the VA-503+ which is still going well.

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Wblane

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:31 pm
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Thanks Robert. Is FIC out of business? I thought they made an Nforce2 board at
some point, but maybe I'm mistaken. I remember this newsgroup used to be
basically the VA503+ newsgroup.

I'm planning on using my 503+ w/a K62-350 as a cheap, quiet multimedia box (DVD
player, MP3 player). I've heard the most important element of a DVD playing box
is the vid-card so hopefully I can still play DVD's w/the k62-350.

 >With the latest bios, 137 GB for WinXP and 128 GB for Win98. You might be
 >able to find a bios upgrade that would give you 48 bit LBA support, that
 >would make it 2.2 TB for WinXP (and Win98 with this patch
 >http://members.aol.com/rloew1/Programs/Patch137.htm).
 >


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Alex Zorrilla

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:46 pm
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Hey, Bill.

Well, I can tell you firsthand that a Geforce4 MX 420 AGP card works great for
playing DVD's on a VA-503A with a K6-3 350, running PowerDVD XP (version 4).

--Alex


Wblane wrote:

 > Thanks Robert. Is FIC out of business? I thought they made an Nforce2 board at
 > some point, but maybe I'm mistaken. I remember this newsgroup used to be
 > basically the VA503+ newsgroup.
 >
 > I'm planning on using my 503+ w/a K62-350 as a cheap, quiet multimedia box (DVD
 > player, MP3 player). I've heard the most important element of a DVD playing box
 > is the vid-card so hopefully I can still play DVD's w/the k62-350.
 >
  > >With the latest bios, 137 GB for WinXP and 128 GB for Win98. You might be
  > >able to find a bios upgrade that would give you 48 bit LBA support, that
  > >would make it 2.2 TB for WinXP (and Win98 with this patch
  > >http://members.aol.com/rloew1/Programs/Patch137.htm).
  > >
 >
 > -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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